James M. Cain, acclaimed as one of the modern masters of mystery, has once again woven a forceful tale that challenges people’s basic morality with temptations they are powerless to resist.
Davey Howell is content in his rural Ohio...
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As originally published in “The Shadow Magazine,” February 1, 1934.
A master fiend who knows The Shadow plots the black avenger’s end. See how well his evil plans work out in this thrilling...
THE WEALTH SEEKER was originally published in the January 15, 1934 issue of The Shadow Magazine.
One man has wealth; one man seeks to obtain it. And The Shadow must stop him! The Shadow must track him back through his henchmen, through the mobs...
Nero Wolfe, the brilliant orchid-growing gourmet detective, and his inimitable confidential assistant, Archie Goodwin, are America’s most beloved detection team. Now they are back in a splendid new murder mystery that takes up where Rex Stout left...
Something entirely new in the field — a Wild West mystery in the heart of NYC. Ellery Queen's now-famous and much-imitated analytico-deductive method of solving crimes is brought to the acme of its development. Through logical reasoning and...
Ellery Queen’s subtle attack on his longest and most complicated ease to dale developed out of a baffling series of murders in New York City. Victim followed victim with no apparent connection except that each was found strangled by a cord of...
At crowded noon, in front of Fifth Avenue's most fashionable department store, while hundreds of sidewalk onlookers watch a demonstration of modernistic furniture in the window, the demonstrator touches a button regulating a concealed wall-bed —...
An exotic movie actress, the swivel-hipped blonde, Winni Moon, and her scented chimpanzee; a murder which, already precious, became a managing editor’s dream; Pink, who came from Flatbush, Brooklyn; Solly Spaeth who was spawned in New York......
In THE DOOR BETWEEN Ellery Queen again achieves this apparently impossible and produces something entirely new in the mystery field. The weapon he was in the most deadly, most universal and the head known among all the wide variety of weapons ever...
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Before the last echo of the shot had trailed down Riverside Drive, Ellery Queen realized that he had just witnessed a murder. Robert Potts lay shot through the heart. Not only had Ellery Queen been a witness but also Inspector Queen and Sergeant...